I Would Define the Sun

If Words Cost Nothing

I
After Eden
The World’s Heart
Learning Money in Reverse
Information Worker at the End of the World
What do coral even get stressed about?
Hymn
My Mother Says Water Dreams Are Auspicious
I Crossed the Sea Boardwalk

II
Christmas Island
Garbage Boogie
Midden / Appetite
Sonnet of Tropical Excess
Keeping House
Hummingbirds
Hilton Head
By These Things We Live

III
Endeavour
Abecedarian for Pinyin
Study in Blue
兰
While Peering in the Mirror
One Blue Sound
Missing You
青
The Road from the Mountains

IV
Before Desire
Lake Lanier
The Ocean in Miniature
Leaving Lisbon
Recurring Dream of Escape
He Sleeps
She Has Dreamt Again of Water
Returning To The Village
I Met My Loneliness
I Drive As My Family Sleeps

V
老家
The Question
The Magic of Eating Garbage
Bracing Myself Against Sea Wind Along the Coast You Call Home
Migration
Today Is
Motherhood in the Climate Crisis
Sea Swim

Coda
大连 / Dalian

Notes
Acknowledgments